Special Issue "Sustainable Electronic Commerce"

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 October 2021.

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Bo-chiuan Su
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Guest Editor
Department of Information Management, National Dong Hwa University, Hualien, Taiwan
Interests: electronic commerce; Internet marketing; information systems; econometrics

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This special issue in Sustainable Electronic Commerce is to disseminate the latest findings and implications in all areas of sustainable electronic commerce.  Sustainability is becoming a big initiative for many businesses, motivated by consumers and business stakeholders to operate in a more sustainable and ethical way,  eventually achieving corporate sustainability.

The electronic commerce is a bridge between the digitalisation of our society and the transition to a more sustainable economy in constant and rapid evolution, shaped by new technologies, new  ideas, new demands, making electronic commerce a sector capable of spearheading innovative sustainable solutions.  In this special issue in Sustainable Electronic Commerce, the scope encompasses the findings and implications of sustainable electronic commerce for societies, businesses, and individuals/consumers, hosting theoretical and empirical research that build a better understanding of sustainable electronic commerce.

Sample topics for sustainable electronic commerce include green electronic commerce; social responsibility and sustainability in sustainable electronic commerce; new technologies for Internet marketing; economics of sustainable electronic commerce; fintech and digital currencies; service provisioning in sustainable electronic commerce; social media technologies and infrastructure; electronic commerce and artificial intelligence; analytical electronic commerce; social commerce; proposed cutting-edge sustainable electronic commerce framework; social networking sites business model; cultural and legal concerns for sustainable electronic commerce; the progress of sustainable electronic commerce; business and organizational transformation using sustainable electronic commerce .

Dr. Bo-chiuan Su
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • sustainable electronic commerce
  • Internet marketing
  • social networks services
  • artificial intelligence
  • organizational transformation
  • fintech and digital currencies

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Detecting the Crisis of Supply Chain Management on E-Commerce for Sustainability Using Q-Technique
Sustainability 2021, 13(16), 9098; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13169098 - 13 Aug 2021
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Detecting the crisis of supply chain management is an important subject for the sustainable management of e-commerce. The purpose of this study was to explore the application of Q-technique to the detection of supply chain crises in the imported food industry under the [...] Read more.
Detecting the crisis of supply chain management is an important subject for the sustainable management of e-commerce. The purpose of this study was to explore the application of Q-technique to the detection of supply chain crises in the imported food industry under the influence of COVID-19. Literature analysis, expert consultation, and Q-technique methods were adopted. We used an expert consultation and questionnaire survey combined with Q-technique using the imported food industry in Taiwan as an example. Fifteen business owners were interviewed to identify priorities for supply chain crises, and 137 questionnaires were collected to determine the strength of each item. By investigating suppliers, distributors, wholesalers, platform operators, online sellers, and logistics operators, this study obtained the priority of supply chain crisis items and the strength of factors for each item. The results show that Q-technique can effectively detect the crisis of cross-border supply chain management, clarifying import food industry e-commerce supply chain crisis items and determining their priority and strength, to help enterprises make emergency decisions regarding supply chain operation, and they can also be used as a reference for enterprises to respond to the crisis. Full article
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Predicting eWOM’s Influence on Purchase Intention Based on Helpfulness, Credibility, Information Quality and Professionalism
Sustainability 2021, 13(13), 7486; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13137486 - 05 Jul 2021
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Product reviews co-written by many Internet reviewers can help consumers make purchase decisions and provide a basis for companies to improve their business strategies. For the company, the most important thing is to understand how the various factors of reviews influence the purchase [...] Read more.
Product reviews co-written by many Internet reviewers can help consumers make purchase decisions and provide a basis for companies to improve their business strategies. For the company, the most important thing is to understand how the various factors of reviews influence the purchase intention. Therefore, we took this issue as the core and investigated the influence of eWOM on purchase intention based on helpfulness, credibility, information quality and professionalism. We adopted feature filtering algorithms and proposed an ensemble model to integrate these classification results to obtain the most accurate prediction. The empirical evaluation shows that the models based on the four importan aspects of reviews can effectively predict the degree of impact of reviews on purchase intention. Full article
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Evaluating Information System Success and Impact on Sustainability Practices: A Survey and a Case Study of Regional Mesonet Information Systems
Sustainability 2021, 13(13), 7260; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13137260 - 29 Jun 2021
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This study examines the role of information systems (IS) on environmental sustainability by gaining an understanding of how benefits may be realized from using IS in a green context (a particular IS, regional mesonet (RM) equipped with information- and communication-based technologies and a [...] Read more.
This study examines the role of information systems (IS) on environmental sustainability by gaining an understanding of how benefits may be realized from using IS in a green context (a particular IS, regional mesonet (RM) equipped with information- and communication-based technologies and a comprehensive information system) through the use of duel approaches: a survey (218 respondents) and a case study (six interviews of stakeholders of a RM). Our results provide evidence how IS use contributes to different goals at different levels of sustainability and advance knowledge of utilizing IS for providing actual as well as anticipated benefits to sustainability. In addition, our findings provide suggestions on how successful IS might be used to further induce actions and advance goals of environmental sustainability that can contribute to energy policy-making. Full article
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